Bricklaying structure, bricklaying method, and brick manufacturing method

Abstract

A bricklaying structure, a bricklaying method and a brick manufacturing method that is adaptable to a variety of architectural details. Each brick is provided with a bolt hole and through-holes. The bolt hole has a diameter which allows a bolt to extend therethrough and the through-hole has a diameter for containing a nut. The bolt hole and through-holes are arranged on a longitudinal center line of the brick, and a center of the bolt hole, centers of the through-holes and respective end faces of the brick are spaced apart an equal distance from each other in a longitudinal direction of the brick. The bricks and metallic plates are vertically stacked and the bricks are integrally connected under pre-stress with each other by tightening the bolts extending through the vertical bolt holes.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a bricklaying structure, bricklaying method and brick manufacturing method, and more specifically, to such structure and methods desirably adaptable to architectural details, e.g., corner part, opening part and columnar part.TECHNICAL BACKGROUND[0002]Various kinds of building construction methods are known in the art, such as wooden, reinforced concrete, steel and block masonry construction methods. As a kind of such construction methods, a bricklaying method is known, in which a brick wall structure is constructed by bricklaying. In general, bricks produced by baking brick clay at a high temperature are highly regarded in architectural design effects or aesthetic effects resulting from their textures, stately appearances, colors and so forth. The bricks also exhibit their excellent physical performances with respect to durability, sound insulation effect, fire resistance efficiency, heat accumulation effect and so forth. Therefo...

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Benefits of technology

[0019]stacking corner bricks (10;20;30;40), each having a through-hole (18;28;38;48) vertically extending therethrough with a diameter of said through-hole being larger than a diameter of said bolt hole (17;27;37;47), so that said bolt holes and said through-holes are vertically and alternately arranged in order; and containing in said through-hole, nuts (70) engageable with said small diameter bolts to securely tighten said corner bricks with said small diameter bolts and said nuts.

[0026]According to the present invention, the number, arrangement and combination of the through-hole, bolt hole and semicircular vertical groove are appropriately predetermined or altered, whereby various kinds of corner bricks adaptable to a variety of architectural details can be manufactured. The bolt hole, through-hole and vertical groove are arranged in order along the center line of the brick and the centers of bolt hole and through-holes are located in positions which divide the length of brick into equal sections, e.g., four equal sections. Appropriate setting or revision of the combination of bolt hole, through-hole and vertical groove in correspondence with the object or subject of use allows a variety of corner bricks to be manufactured. This makes it practicable to standardize the production, specification and usage of the bricks. Further, the arrangement of the present invention is advantageous to reduction of drying time of the brick in a drying process, since the entire surface area of the brick is increased by the through-hole and the vertical groove.

Problems solved by technology

Thus, it is difficult to economically carry out a bricklaying construction method at a low price, in comparison with the other types of building construction methods suitable for industrial mass production processes.

However, the brick wall structure has a drawback as to an earthquake resistance in comparison to the other kinds of building structures, such as a reinforced concrete structure.

For instance, walls of actual buildings are provided with various types of partial structures, such as internal corners, external corners, columnar configurations, openings and so forth, but the bricks which have been studied or researched are not preferably applicable to such architectural details or structures.

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